Senick v. Lucas

After a judge in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County-sitting without a jury, rendered a judgment for eleven hundred dollars against the appellant, he appealed.

He presents two questions for our consideration, but it will only be necessary to answer one: Was the appellee warranted in rescinding an entire contract for the purchase of improved realty, because a small shed located at the extreme rear of the property encroached upon a neighbor’s land by 1.2 feet, and, as a result thereof, the appellant had about 20 inches of the shed sawed off and refinished ?

On April 22, 1961, the parties…